20 July, 2009

I'd just like to thank Dave - when we were driving back from our fun family vacation this past Saturday night, and I saw these - he didn't protest my squeals, the series of suddenly necessary u-turns, rummaging around for the camera, or me jumping out on the highway, just so I could provide you all with this crazy crazy entertainment:

Look it's a matched set:

What's that - you can't see? Here, I'll get a bit closer:

I would just like to mention that this is quite similar to a funny photoshopped sign that has traveled around the internet for quite some time. I must have it somewhere... ah, here:

This one is funny because the typo is in Hebrew, which translates to "Curvy Danger." Ha! It would be funnier were it real - but if you look at the spacing of the Hebrew letters in relation to the edges of the sign, it seems pretty obviously altered.

14 July, 2009

This was in the news online last week. I saw it, and thought - huh, that's a little funny. Until I looked one drop further, and understood what was going on. Here, let's see how long it takes you to figure it out:

He's such a nice CEO, don't you think? That's probably why they offered him the position - it makes sense. Unless...oh, look, turns out he works here:

A little capitalization goes a long way, it's true. But that one was fun!

08 July, 2009

This one doesn't have any typos that I noticed. But the concept was so bizarre that I felt I had to take a picture anyway.

It's for Axe, a "body spray" for men. It's just deodorant, as far as I know, but it has always marketed itself by claiming to be particularly irresistible to women. Their new scent, apparently, is chocolate. Huh?

Yes, I like chocolate as much as anyone else, but this somehow strikes me as... the wrong medium for chocolate. Ladies? Is it just me?

05 July, 2009

Well, look at me, the longtime lurker, hosting my own edition of Haveil Havalim. I'm a newbie, remember - so please forgive me if I screw anything up too badly :) By the way, if you haven't been here before, do feel free to take a look around while you're here. And now, with no further ado, here's

Haveil Havalim #224 - The Fourth of July Weekend Edition!

~~~~~Founded by Soccer Dad, Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week and coordinated by Jack. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'~~~~~

What a lot of categories there are! Let's go in reverse alphabetical, just for fun:

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01 July, 2009

Here's a Microsoft blooper that my hubby Dave happened upon yesterday. He emailed me the screenshot, and I said, "in a timely fashion? Is that the joke?" I mean, "in a timely fashion" is kind of an archaic way to talk, but it's not that funny. And then he pointed out that it doesn't actually say "timely fashion." Almost... but not quite.

So really, this feels good, in a way. Good in the same way that I find quiet, deep pleasure when seeing other people's children misbehaving in the supermarket, or other people being criticized at work. Look - it's not only us dumb Israelis messing up the English language! Turns out we're in pretty good company!